MODEMMANAGER(8) System Manager's Manual MODEMMANAGER(8)
NAME
ModemManager - mobile broadband modem management daemon
SYNOPSIS
ModemManager [OPTION...]
DESCRIPTION
ModemManager provides a unified high level API for communicating with
mobile broadband modems, regardless of the protocol used to communicate
with the actual device (Generic AT, vendor-specific AT, QCDM, QMI,
MBIM...).
ModemManager is a DBus-based system daemon and is not meant to be used
directly from the command line.
APPLICATION OPTIONS
--filter-policy=<policy>
Specify which ports are probed and how:
'ALLOWLIST-ONLY'
Only devices or ports explicitly allowlisted with the
'ID_MM_DEVICE_PROCESS' udev tag are probed.
'STRICT'
Only the TTY ports that are heuristically determined to
be very likely to be modem ports are probed. Nay end up
ignoring some devices.
--no-auto-scan
Fully disable udev-based auto-scan looking for devices.
--initial-kernel-events=<filename>
Specify location of the file where the list of initial kernel
events is available. The ModemManager daemon will process this
file on startup.
--debug
Runs ModemManager with "DEBUG" log level and without daemonizing.
This is useful for debugging, as it directs log output to the
controlling terminal in addition to syslog.
-V, --version
Print the ModemManager software version and exit.
-h, --help
Show application options.
LOGGING OPTIONS
--log-level=<level>
Sets how much information ModemManager sends to the log destina-
tion (usually syslog's "daemon" facility). By default, only in-
formational, warning, and error messages are logged. Given level
must be one of "ERR", "WARN", "INFO" or "DEBUG".
--log-file=<filename>
Specify location of the file where ModemManager will dump its log
messages, instead of syslog.
--log-journal
Output log message to the systemd journal.
--log-timestamps
Include absolute timestamps in the log output.
--log-relative-timestamps
Include timestamps, relative to the start time of the daemon, in
the log output.
TEST OPTIONS
--test-session
Run the ModemManager daemon in the Session bus instead of the
System bus.
--test-enable
Enable the Test DBus interface in the daemon.
--test-plugin-dir=[PATH]
Specify an alternate directory where the daemon should look for
vendor plugins.
AUTHOR
Aleksander Morgado <aleksander@aleksander.es>
SEE ALSO
mmcli(1), NetworkManager(8)
5 September 2014 MODEMMANAGER(8)
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